The findings are preliminary, and most come from BP, which owns the lease on the well and has at hearings pointed fingers at other companies for the problems on the rig, including Transocean, the rig's owner.
The writer attended the first two hearings, pointing out that because we are in a democracy, people like Miriam Cobert and Larry Gould could argue while Attorney Arnold Rosenberg and Judge Patricia Downing have to listen to the complaints.
Congress held no public hearings, and pointed fingers at the perpetrators, not at political rivals.
During his confirmation hearings, senators pointed out how Sessions had vehemently opposed adding gay and transgender people to existing hate crimes laws, which the justice department is charged with enforcing ever since the bill he opposed became law in 2009.
At some memorable low points, hearings have become a gantlet of accusation, interest group warfare and public humiliation.
What was most humiliating at some of Leveson's hearings, as Dan Sabbagh points out in a very comic precis, was the way so many witnesses confused the public interest with anything that may interest their little corner of the public and shift a few copies.
The hearing-related acupuncture points (GB37 and SJ5) are on the left leg and left wrist respectively.
Mr. Witt, speaking in the downtown offices of the consulting firm he started two years ago, noted the series of Congressional hearings on Indian Point prompted by the report.
The feasibility study is part of a broader effort by Mr. Gupta's group and Riverkeeper, the study's other sponsor, to position themselves for license renewal hearings on Indian Point that are expected to start in the spring.
After decades of debate, hearings about Indian Point have the air of scripted Kabuki — proponents making a case based on jobs and energy, critics making one based on safety and the environment.
